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Apr 3rd

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New Zealand's fastest growing microblogging...

I’ve only been back in New Zealand for about a month but I’ve been pretty busy this Christmas building New Zealand fastest growing microblogging service. Party With Monsters let’s you post updates of up to 280 charaters to your mates (twice as many as Twitter). You can make friends, reply to people’s posts, add favourites and send private messages to each other. Plus, for...

Dec 26th

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My Most Hated Lyric

From the second I first heard this lyric, it crawled under my skin where it has been living happily ever since. Taunting me. Knowing that, years from now, it will lead me to madness and my ultimate demise. The lyric is ‘I got my conscious asking questions that I can’t find’ taken from the song ‘Never Ever’ by All Saints. How can your conscious ask questions that...

Apr 26th

David Apple Remix EP - Free Download →

My Remix EP is available for free download from Wed 19 Jan 2011.

Jan 13th

House of Tracks Interviews U to Z

The last batch of House of Tracks interviews including Ungdomskulen, Untitled Musical Project and We Are Scientists. — Ungdomskulen What is your favourite video game? Fifa 2003. My personal favourite is Space Invaders from the 90s. Is it in 2D? 1D, yeah! I like double D’s! Colin McRae Rally Championships. Also Double Dragon is really good. I like Leisure Suit Larry. We used to play...

Sep 23rd

House of Tracks Interviews T Part 2

More including The Wombats, Three Trapped Tigers and two Young Knives interviews. — The Wombats Where are you from and how did you meet? Me and Dan knew each other from a while ago and we got together after a few hazy nights and started writing songs about goats and things. We’ll play you our first song… I’m a goat, Sit on my own all day and eat some grass, I like...

Sep 23rd

House of Tracks Interviews T Part 1

More House of Tracks interviews including The Kooks, The Maccabees and The Noisettes. — The Kooks What one track most inspired your style? There’s not really one track. I think you can tell our music has been influenced by lots of different styles. From ‘Guns of Brixton’ by The Clash to Bob Dylan. Mat’s really into phunkadelic, I’m more into my sweet folk...

Sep 23rd

House of Tracks Interviews S to T

More House of Tracks interviews including Soulwax, The Holloways and The Automatic. — Sarah Hendy Why did you decide to become a TV presenter? I didn’t want to have to do a normal job in society and I lacked the height to be a model. I was also lacking the look, the body, the face pretty much everything needed to be a model. Being a model was never really on the cards. So yeah...

Sep 23rd

House of Tracks Interviews P to R

Here is another batch of House of Tracks interviews including Plaid, Paul Hawkins and Peggy Sue And The Pictures. — Paul Hawkins I still recall my first impression of Paul Hawkins, a lone figure on stage at the 12 Bar, strumming a guitar and bawling out a tuneless rant. “Is this guy for real?” I thought. Two years and two albums later, turns out he is. Since then I’ve...

Sep 23rd

House of Tracks Interviews J to N

More House of Tracks interviews including Jamie T and Kid Koala. — Jamie T What are your influences? I try to have as many as possible. When I was younger I used to listen to old school ska and reggae and a lot of old Clash stuff. We interviewed the Kooks last month and Luke said The Clash where a big influence on their sound too. Well the Clash are the best band that have ever come...

Sep 23rd

House of Tracks Interviews G to I

Here is another batch of House of Tracks interviews including George Pringle, Goldierocks and Good Shoes. — George Pringle I heard you had quite a hellish experience at Bestival this year. Are you traumatized? Well, I currently have a cold as a result of sleeping in a tent in a Tshirt because I couldn’t find anything to wear on my bottom half in the dark and I was drunk and wet and...

Sep 23rd

House of Tracks Interviews D to F

Here are some more House of Tracks interviews including David Cronenberg’s Wife, David Jack and Derek Meins. — David Cronenberg’s Wife Congratulations on the new album. It must be a bit of a milestone for you after these few years developing as a band. Rhi: It’s been four years coming. Tom: Well, You’ve got to do it right, I mean it’s no good just going into a...

Sep 23rd

House of Tracks Interviews A to C

During my time working on House of Tracks, I did some amazing interviews. — 1990s How did you all meet? Me and Jamie grew up together in our teenage years. He lived in Uddingston, me in Blantyre. There was a mushroom field equidistant. Drugs and Beatles were our glue. I met Michael up a tree in Kelvingrove Park. We were trying to get some ‘blue shit’ off the tree. Shared a...

Sep 23rd

“Maintaining this blog is hard.”

Sep 18th

My Top 14 Movies Of All Time

Aug 21st

Wonky Pop →

I’ve just discovered that my third favourite genre of music has a name!

Aug 20th

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Aug 14th

My txt Chat With Reuben Lee

David Apple: ZOMG! I've got ur mobile numba LOLZ!
Reuben Lee: So you do.
David Apple: I'm at raw night at the classic and I found your number on a flyer.
Reuben Lee: Baffled.
David Apple: Tell the vuvuzela joke!!!
Reuben Lee: Are you my stalker?
Reuben Lee: Baffled.
David Apple: My girlfriend says I should stop txting you.
Reuben Lee: I know it's the bloke from the academy. Just pullin ur leg.
David Apple: Baffled.
Reuben Lee: Ha ha

Aug 9th

My Google Profile →

Aug 9th

Bad Eight Bar Breaks

Maybe I listen to music too closely but bad eight bar breaks are really apparent to me. Like seeing Comic Sans used on the menu in a posh restaurant. I think they must have written a really good song, but decided that without a break in the middle then it’s a little too repetitive. So they panic and quickly write a bad eight bar break in the hope that people don’t pay very much...

Aug 4th

My remix of Sweden by David Cronenberg’s...

Jul 24th

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Jul 18th

I Hate MS Excel 2007

Hate is a strong word. Perhaps I could do with spending some more time with Microsoft’s complete redesign of Excel before using such a strong word. But seriously, what were they thinking? It’s no secret that Excel is the only decent program Microsoft have ever created. It’s a really powerful tool once you get to grips with building formulas and conditional formatting. Word is...

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Jul 12th

This is my electronic cover version of Young Blood...

Jul 9th